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Panels
to tour areas hit by drought
Ferozepore, August 4
Four committees set-up at
divisional levels by the Punjab Government will visit the worst
affected areas in all districts from tomorrow onwards to assess the
drought situation. Mr Gurchet Singh Bhullar, Irrigation Minister, said
this last evening while presiding over a meeting of the senior
officials and MLAs of Muktsar, Moga and Ferozepore districts.
Punjab to demand 300 lakh units of power
Dera Bassi, August 4
To meet power crisis and uninterrupted supply for irrigation in the state, the Punjab Government will demand 300 lakh units of electricity from the national power grid.
Presently the state was drawing 1000 lakh units against its total requirement of 1260 lakh units.
Councillor’s
nephew stabbed to death
Murder linked to drug menace
Fatehgarh Sahib, August 4
One person was stabbed to death
and another received grave wounds in a clash between two groups in
Sirhind’s Brahman Majra late yesterday. The stabbed youth, Pawan
Kumar,18, and his friend, Rajinder ‘Jindri’, 19, had been moved to
Civil Hospital in a serious condition. Pawan was the nephew of Mr
Balbir Singh Balli, municipal councillor from Brahman Majra.
Khalsa
panchayat to confront Ashutosh followers
Ludhiana, August 4
Bhai Ranjit Singh, a former
Jathedar of Akal Takht and the Khalsa Panchayat have separately
resolved to physically counter Noormahalia sect chief Ashutosh and his
followers if the ‘government’ allowed him to hold sammelans in the
state which denigrated the Sikh gurus, Guru Granth Sahib and
Sikhism.”
Survey
on labourers in Punjab soon
Chandigarh, August 4
Punjab’s Employment and Labour
Department plans to conduct a fresh survey of labourers, both children
and bonded, in the state to assess their conditions especially after
drought in several states and drought-like conditions in Punjab.
Complaints
pile up at PHRC
Chandigarh, August 4
There are at least 800 “unallotted’’
complaints in the Punjab Human Rights Commission, which is facing a
shortage of members. While Justice J S Sekhon quit on April 12
(shortly before his term was to end on May 4) to join as Chief
Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections, the PHRC Chairman, Justice V.K.
Khanna and another member, Mr T.S. Cheema, completed their terms on
July 15.
Mofar
wants Bhunder to clarify stand
Mansa, August 4
Senior Congress leader and former
MLA Ajit Inder Singh Mofar today while claiming that he had no
personal enmity with Mr Balwinder Singh Bhunder, general secretary,
SAD, said Mr Bhunder should reply to the allegations of corruption
levelled against him.
Revenue
record tampered with?
Bathinda, August 4
Even as revenue officials of the
local tehsil office have been “committing repeated mistakes” in
the maintenance of the revenue record, three affected persons — Mr
Mohan Lal Garg, former chairman, Improvement Trust, Bathinda, Mr Ashok
Bharti and Mr Parkash Chand (both advocates) — have been running
from pillar to post to get justice for the past many weeks but in
vain.
First
animal shelter resurrected
Jalandhar
Pashupalika, India’s first
police-run animal shelter, is being resurrected, thanks to efforts by
the Punjab Police and animal lovers. The
round-the-clock animal shelter, opened in July last year by the
Jalandhar police owing to efforts by then SSP Gaurav Yadav, had
brought laurels to the Jalandhar police and had enabled it to break
its image of a “danda-wielding” police force.
Teenager’s
adventures land her in Kupwara
Ferozepore
From a small town of Ladhuka in
this border district of Ferozepore to Kupwara in Kashmir, the story of
Monica (name changed) a teenager girl, has all ingredients of a real
Bollywood flick, complete with twists and turns. She left home in
search of greener pastures as she did not like a mundane life. She did
not want to continue her studies in the small backward place as
desired by her parents.
NUJ
flays 26 pc FDI in print media
Ludhiana, August 4
The National Union of Journalists
has criticised the Union Government’s decision to allow 26 per cent
foreign direct investment in Indian print media. Shyam Khosla, a
senior journalist and national president of the NUJ, said this step
would pose danger to the national unity and integrity. Khosla was
speaking at the inaugural function of the two-day workshop ‘
Techniques of Reporting’ organised by the Punjab unit of the NUJ in
association with the PAU Communication Centre at Punjab Agricultural
University here today.
50
pc more Uttaranchal power for PSEB from today
Patiala, August 4
The Uttaranchal State Electricity
Board authorities will provide 15 lakh units of power from tomorrow on
a daily basis to the Punjab state power board. It is significant as
the Uttaranchal and J&K State Electricity Boards, had discontinued
supply of power to the PSEB due to failure of monsoon in their
respective regions.
Teej
at Pingalwara
Amritsar, August 4
It was a rare feast to the eyes
to see sick, disabled, deaf and dumb, physically and mentally
handicapped inmates of the All-India Pingalwara Charitable Society
singing on swings, spinning ‘charkha’ and doing embroidery as a
part of the ‘Teej festival’ to mark the tenth death anniversary of
the society founder, Bhagat Puran Singh.
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the All-India Pingalwara Charitable Society make traditional 'nalas' as part of the
10th anniversary of its founder
Bhagat Puran Singh in Amritsar on Sunday. — Photo Rajiv Sharma |
DMCH-employees deadlock ends
Ludhiana, August 4
The 45-day-old deadlock between the management and employees of Dayanand Medical College Hospital
here was resolved during the course of a series of meetings between the management, leaders of various political parties and striking employees convened by the district administration here today.
Punjab
MLA in ICU after road mishap
Chandigarh August 4
Punjab Congress MLA Rana Gurjit
Singh received multiple fractures in a road accident near Dehra Dun on
the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. He is in the ICU at
Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.
Engineers
plan stir fearing sack
Chandigarh, August 4
Subdivisional engineers of Punjab
posted in various departments, including the PWD, Public Health,
Irrigation and Panchayati Raj, have decided to hold rallies in all
districts of the state to protest against the government’s decision
to dispense with the services of those engineers who were recruited by
the Punjab Public Service Commission under the chairmanship of Ravi
Sidhu.
Mann
demands refugee status for J&K Sikhs
Phagwara, August 4
Akali Dal (Amritsar) president
Simranjit Singh Mann has demanded a refugee status for 30,000 Kashmiri
Sikhs, who have been living as “state-less” people in Jammu and
Kashmir since 1947.
45
cases settled at Lok Adalat
Bathinda, August 4
A state-level Lok Adalat was held
here yesterday under the chairmanship of Mr B.C. Rajput, District and
Sessions Judge and 45 cases involving a compensation of more than Rs
20 lakh were settled on the spot.
Professor
denies links with ultras
Amritsar, August 4
Mr Baljinder Singh, a senior
Professor of Khalsa College, has refuted the allegations levelled by
Dr M.S. Dhillon, Principal, that he (Prof Baljinder Singh) had links
with terrorists.
Police
budget touches Rs 1000 cr
Ludhiana, August 4
Punjab Police is in for another
top-level reshuffle as Mr A. A. Sidiqqui joins as Officer on Special
Duty on his return from Manipur where he was Director-General of
Manipur Police for nearly two years. He is likely to get DGP’s rank
as he headed the police in Manipur and had been promised that rank.
Murders
on rise due to family disputes
Bathinda, August 4
Nachhattar Singh and his two
sons, Gurlal Singh and Balraj Singh, were murdered allegedly by his
third son, Sukhraj Singh, at Duhowala village of Muktsar in July as he
suspected that one of his younger brothers had illicit relations with
his wife.
Youth
bares torture
Amritsar, August 4
Vishal Sharma (34), a resident of
Cheel Mandi here, was allegedly beaten up and tortured while under
“illegal detention” by Mr Davinder Singh, SHO, Kotwali and three
other policemen in the suicide case of Meenu Sharma in which he was
not even an accused.
5
held for immoral trafficking
Bathinda, August 4
Five persons, including two
women, were arrested yesterday during raids on a hotel opposite the
district courts under Sections 3 and 5 of the Suppression of Immoral
Trafficking (Girls and Women) Act. Police sources said the raids were
carried out on a tip-off and two women and two men were found in rooms
of the hotel.
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